WEIRD NATURE
“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.” By Craig Childs, The Atlantic – Between a sidewalk and a cinder-block wall grew seven mushrooms, each half the size of a doorknob. Their silver-green caps …
Deer cross roads whenever they wish, but some time periods are higher risk than others. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images – By Tom Langen, Professor of Biology, Clarkson University 2021 Sep 21 – Autumn is here starting Wednesday, and that means the risk …
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at El Mansoura, university works on renovating the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale called “Phiomicetus Anubis”, that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea, which were discovered in the Fayum Depression …
Some who stop eating meat continue eating fish in the belief that it’s good for them and that fishing is less cruel and destructive than farming – nothing could be further from the truth. While fish continues to be labelled a health food …
A horror movie proved an unlikely source of inspiration. Pelling in the kitchen with asparagus, the veggie that inspired his work on spinal cord injuries. Andrew Pelling – By Cari Shane 2021 Aug 04 – His lab is filled with apples, asparagus, broccoli, …
Archaeologist and paleoenvironmental researcher Isaac Hart of the University of Utah surveys a melting ice patch in western Mongolia. Peter Bittner, CC BY-ND – William Taylor, Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder 2021 Aug 11 – In the world’s …
What are you looking at? Greg Shine, BLM/Flickr, CC BY – Authors Jeremy Dertien, PhD Candidate in Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University Courtney Larson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming Sarah Reed, Affiliate Faculty in Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State …
Juniper trees, common in Arizona’s Prescott National Forest, have been dying with the drought. Benjamin Roe/USDA Forest Service via AP – By Daniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Tree Physiology and Forest Ecology, University of Georgia and Raquel Partelli Feltrin, Postdoctoral Scholar in Botany, …
A person looks from a viewpoint, Sunday, 2021 Jul 11, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. Death Valley in southeastern California’s Mojave Desert reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) on Saturday, according to the National Weather Service’s reading at Furnace Creek. The shockingly …
A close-up micro-CT scan of Ophiojura‘s eight sets of toothy jaws. J. Black/University of Melbourne – By Michael Irving 2021 Jun 18 – While scientists hunt for signs of life on other planets, there are still plenty of utterly alien creatures left to find …
